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What’s Keeping You Awake?

25% of Americans suffer from sleep disorders that keep them tossing and turning…

The Real Cost of Smoking (Smoking Cessation #1)

Need another reason to quit smoking? Smoking causes 1 out of 5 deaths in America. Understand the real costs of smoking, and you’ll be ready to put down that cigarette!

Your Brain on Drugs – Hyrdrocodone

Vicodin, which contains the powerful narcotic Hydrocodone, is one of the most commonly abused prescription drugs.

Consumer Psychology in a Recession

An interview with John Quelch, Professor, Harvard Business School. In a tough economy, companies can succeed if they understand their customers’ evolving consumption patterns and fine-tune their marketing strategies accordingly.

Ruby Wax gives advice on what to do if your friend is living with depression

Ruby Wax addresses the stigma surrounding mental illness such as depression, and gives advice on what to do if someone you know is living with depression.

How my family and friends react to my mental illness

Yvonne talks about her family and friend’s reactions to her Schizo-Affective disorder diagnosis, and how discrimination affects her life.

Why is your friend laughing the same way you do?

Maybe you have already observed that whenever you touched your hair during a conversation with your best friend, she/he did the same way right after you. Or that some people changed their way of talking, after spending some time with another person. This things illustrate, what researchers called “the chameleon effect”. This effect means the [...]

Symptoms and treatment for panic attacks

A panic attack means a symptom of a psychological problem, an anxiety, manifested apparently for no particular reason, with a high intensity, being often confused with the symptoms of heart attacks. It manifests suddenly and unaccountable in the shape of fear, restlessness, palpitation, uncontrollable quivering, excessive sweating, asphyxia, fast breathing, feeling like fainting, terrible fear [...]

Are you an addict?

August 12, 2009 by - No Comment

Are you an addict?

Let me start this article by saying that if you are an addict you already know that. You may reply “How can I say such a thing?”. Well, I am saying it because there are signs and symptoms that makes you aware of this fact. You are the first one who sees and feels this. [...]

SICAP 2009 – Theoretical and Practical in Psychological Research

“Tibiscus” University of Timişoara – Faculty of Psychology together with the Correctional Center of Buzias, are pleased to invite you to participate to the International Conference „Theoretical and Practical in Psychological Research”, which represents the continuation of the traditional scientific manifestation „Research and Applied in Psychology”. During this period, April 24th and 25th, 2009, specialists [...]